Charles W. Lewis II
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Charles "Will" Lewis II is a sociologist, diplomat, author, and angel investor. He is the Development Policy Advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command, Department of Defense. From 2016 to 2021, he served as the Gender and Inclusive Development Advisor for the US Agency for International Development's Regional Development Mission for Asia in Bangkok, Thailand. Before arriving in Thailand, Will served two tours as the Senior Gender Advisor and Deputy Director, Gender Office, USAID/Afghanistan. In that capacity, Will oversaw the implementation of USAID's Promote program, the largest investment in gender equity and female empowerment in USAID's history, and launched USAID's Countering Trafficking in Persons project and gender-based violence activity. He also co-chaired the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund Gender Working Group, with the World Bank. From 2012 to 2014, Will worked on youth issues and project design at USAID's office in Accra, Ghana.
Prior to joining USAID in 2011, Will was Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Service Learning at Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and State University of New York at Stony Brook, with coursework at the University of Amsterdam, he specialized in the sociology of gender and sexuality, with an emphasis in globalization and post-conflict settings.
As an angel investor and volunteer, he supports social enterprises and the arts, particularly those relating to gender equality and social inclusion, homelessness, community cohesion, and LGBTI issues. Will volunteered with the Appalachian Regional Coalition on Homelessness to conduct the point-in-time counts of the homeless and precariously housed populations in 2010 and 2011 and was team lead for the 2012 international observer mission for Ghana's presidential election.
He is from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Prior to joining USAID in 2011, Will was Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Sociology and Service Learning at Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee. A graduate of the University of Kentucky and State University of New York at Stony Brook, with coursework at the University of Amsterdam, he specialized in the sociology of gender and sexuality, with an emphasis in globalization and post-conflict settings.
As an angel investor and volunteer, he supports social enterprises and the arts, particularly those relating to gender equality and social inclusion, homelessness, community cohesion, and LGBTI issues. Will volunteered with the Appalachian Regional Coalition on Homelessness to conduct the point-in-time counts of the homeless and precariously housed populations in 2010 and 2011 and was team lead for the 2012 international observer mission for Ghana's presidential election.
He is from Bowling Green, Kentucky.